NARATHIWAT, Aug 22 – An army volunteer ranger on Monday was gunned down in Narathiwat’s Rangae district while working in a rubber plantation, according to local police. Nirosuenan Jehnu, 31, was shot three times in his torso and head and died immediately, according to Pol Col Suchart Asavachinda, superintendent of Rangae police station. The victim’s […]
Thai Police ordinance officers in the deep South were given new bomb disposal and defusing equipment Monday, similar to that already in commission but in larger numbers. The devices, worth around Bt200 million in total, included bomb disposal robots, bomb suits, devices to jam mobile phone signals, and radio frequencies, scanners for explosives and a […]
SURAT THANI, 21 August 2011 (NNT) – Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation is speeding the development plan for facilities around Ang Thong Islands National Marine Park in Surat Thani province, hoping to draw more tourists and promote sustainable tourism in this area. According to Head of the National Marine Park Mr. […]
Pattani – Two Buddhist vendors were shot dead on a road in this southern border province Friday, police said. Mongkol Jaikla, 30, and his father, Watana Jaikla, 56, were ambushed by gunmen on a remote road in Sai Buri district at 12:10 pm. The two, residents from Nakhon Ratchasima, were driving their pick-up trucks to […]
BANGKOK, 18 August 2011 (NNT) – Thailand’s Southern Border Provinces Administration Centre (SBPAC) Secretary-General, Panu Uthairat, has indicated that the situation in the 3 southern most provinces has improved as more residents have been helpful to the authority. The levels of insurgency and violence have been reduced to a certain extent with local cooperation. Since […]
BANGKOK, 18 August 2011 (NNT) – Defence Minister General Yuthasak Sasiprapa and Army Chief General Prayut Chan-O-Cha are scheduled to visit the southern provinces of Songkhla and Pattani in order to follow up on the operation in the restive south. General Yuthasak, General Prayut and their entourage will be travelling to the deep south to […]
NARATHIWAT, Aug 17 – A man on Wednesday was gunned down by a suspected insurgent while tapping latex in a rubber plantation in violence-plagued Narathiwat’s Rangae district, according to local police. Abdullah Samae, 34, was shot several times in his torso by a gunman armed with an M16 assault rifle, according to Pol Col Suchart […]
Suspected insurgents detonated a time bomb near a market in Narathiwat’s Jor Irong district today but no injury or death was reported. Following the explosion at 9.50am, police along with a bomb disposal team rushed to the Ban Yaning Market and found pieces of the homemade bomb, reportedly placed in a one-kilogram plastic engine oil […]
